Lowensda Posted June 23, 2017 Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-inside-the-secretive-tory-election-call-centre Dodgy call centre set up by the Conservatives to canvass votes in marginal seats. Lovely bunch. Breached electoral law, so why is there not another election in the offing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted June 23, 2017 Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 Breached electoral law, so why is there not another election in the offing? If only. I'm sick of the scum running the country atm. aaron 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron Posted June 23, 2017 Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 Small victory in the fact they have had to drop many of their controversial acts from the manifesto. My lad will now continue to be able to have school dinners (which he wont eat) instead of the 6.9p breakfast (which he would probably eat the fussy little shit! ) and foxes can rest easy too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowensda Posted June 23, 2017 Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 Romey 1878 and MikeO 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 23, 2017 Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 23, 2017 Report Share Posted June 23, 2017 People holding the casting votes for all of us? http://www.irishnews.com/news/2015/10/09/news/dup-has-also-been-criticised-for-loyalist-links-288278/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 Theresa May and the Holy Grail https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1882803905316197&id=1803189813277607 MikeO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 Theresa May and the Holy Grail https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1882803905316197&id=1803189813277607 Some clever people about! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 http://www.nme.com/festivals/jeremy-corbyn-glastonbury-2017-speech-full-2093107 He's on a hell of a roll, Labour landslide when May bows to the inevitable; the longer she clings on the bigger the Labour win gets imo, she should just take her medicine and get out now. Damage limitation time for the Tories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted June 25, 2017 Report Share Posted June 25, 2017 http://www.nme.com/festivals/jeremy-corbyn-glastonbury-2017-speech-full-2093107 He's on a hell of a roll, Labour landslide when May bows to the inevitable; the longer she clings on the bigger the Labour win gets imo, she should just take her medicine and get out now. Damage limitation time for the Tories. I hope you're right, for the good of everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted June 26, 2017 Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40403434 because fuck human rights Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hafnia Posted June 26, 2017 Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40403434 because fuck human rights Good Friday peace treaty? Well that's screwed now too. Absolutely disgraceful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palfy Posted June 26, 2017 Report Share Posted June 26, 2017 How the fuck is she allowed to dip into the public purse to the tune of 1 billion to prop up her failing party and her shitty career. Everybody who voted for another party are now contributing through their tax for her to give their money away so she can heap more misery on them, wrong wrong wrong. MikeO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Tory MP with a conscience! Whatever next? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mp-voices-fury-parliament-10710286 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 True colours will always surface. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40555639 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Steve Posted July 12, 2017 Report Share Posted July 12, 2017 True colours will always surface. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40555639 Interesting choice of words, given the topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted July 15, 2017 Report Share Posted July 15, 2017 Today's Diane Abbott award goes to.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-40358825/boris-johnson-struggles-in-interview (actually it was a few weeks ago but no less funny) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 What a surprise, Tory manifesto pledge broken. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41073365 She'll probably blame the DUP bigots she's in bed with for it in her memoirs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 The less govt intervention the better IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 The less govt intervention the better IMO. Are the government not elected to govern? You want businesses to do what they want without regulation? Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted August 29, 2017 Report Share Posted August 29, 2017 (edited) Are the government not elected to govern? You want businesses to do what they want without regulation? Wow. I don't see why the govt should be poking their noses into the areas they are talking about with this regulation. If businesses want to spend x million on a chief executive who does sweet fa then that's their prerogative. I don't see them intervening in football clubs. I think there should be more for big business but the less red tape for small businesses can only be a good thing overall. I can't help it I'm a capitalist (who was severely hampered by red tape when trying to start up a business!). Edited August 29, 2017 by Bailey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 Latest "YouGov" poll on who would be the best PM has May and Corbyn neck-and-neck at 33% each; just behind "Don't know" who wins with 35%; I'm going to get some money on him! https://yougov.co.uk/news/2017/10/11/voting-intention-conservatives-39-labour-42-10-11-/ (Don't ask me how they got a 101% total; can only think they're rounding up/down) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 He won't win. If he couldn't get in during the last election I just don't see how it's possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubecula Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 my money is on the outsider "fuck this shit" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 2 hours ago, Romey 1878 said: He won't win. If he couldn't get in during the last election I just don't see how it's possible. I meant I was going to put some money on "Don't know". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 1 hour ago, MikeO said: I meant I was going to put some money on "Don't know". Oh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cornish Steve Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 4 hours ago, MikeO said: I meant I was going to put some money on "Don't know". People have changed their name by deed poll to dafter examples than that. It's just £14 to apply online. Can we each throw in a few pounds for you, Mike? From MikeO to DowntonO - or even Downton O. Winns. Incidentally, four last names in Britain have just one letter. There's a Mr A, Mr M, Mr X, and (my favourite) Mr E. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete0 Posted November 16, 2017 Report Share Posted November 16, 2017 Landmark study links Tory austerity to 120,000 deaths Government is accused of 'economic murder' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tory-austerity-deaths-study-report-people-die-social-care-government-policy-a8057306.html?amp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted November 16, 2017 Report Share Posted November 16, 2017 15 minutes ago, pete0 said: Landmark study links Tory austerity to 120,000 deaths Government is accused of 'economic murder' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tory-austerity-deaths-study-report-people-die-social-care-government-policy-a8057306.html?amp Meanwhile, over at the DWP... SEARCH FOR PIP CLAIMANTS ENTITLED TO MORE A shameful 7 months after it lost a PIP court case, the DWP has finally backed down and changed the way it makes decisions about PIP. It has also begun searching for thousands of claimants who have lost out as a result of the delay. Until last week, the DWP had argued that a claimant could only score points for being unsafe if harm was likely to occur on more than 50% of the occasions on which they attempted an activity. But, in back March a panel of upper tribunal judges held that the decision maker should look at whether there is a real possibility that harm might occur and also at how great the harm might be. The greater the potential harm, the less likely it needs to be that it would happen on any specific occasion. It has taken the DWP an almost criminal seven months to update their guidance to health professionals and decision makers The DWP believes that an extra 10,000 claimants will benefit by £70 - £90 a month as a result of the change. Penny Mordaunt, former minister for disabled people, told the Commons earlier this month: “In the case of existing claimants the Department for Work and Pensions will undertake an exercise to go through all existing cases and identify anyone who may be entitled to more. We will then write to those people affected and all payments will be backdated to the date of the change in case law.” However, few claimants would trust the DWP to identify all those who should receive a higher award, or any award at all if you got nothing. It would definitely be worth getting advice if you believe your case should be looked at again, especially as the DWP seem to be focussing almost exclusively on claimants with epilepsy. AS FEW PIP SAFETY AWARDS AS POSSIBLE Whilst the DWP have no choice but to change the way they assess PIP claimants on safety grounds, new guidance to decision makers issued following Mordaunt’s statement show that they aim to change as little as possible. The new guidance gives five imaginary examples of claimants who will need their claims reconsidering in the light of the upper tribunal ruling. As a result, the number of claimants who get an increased award is . . . can you guess? Yes, it’s zero. Not one of the claimants in the guidance is better-off because their safety has been properly taken into account. Tribunals, however, may take a very different view. Especially in light of the utterly scornful ‘no-brainer’ opinion of DWP appeals voiced by the senior president of tribunals below. TRIBUNAL NO-BRAINERS Sir Ernest Ryder, senior president of tribunals, has condemned the the DWP for forcing so many claimants to go to appeal when it is a ‘no-brainer’ that the DWP will lose. According to Ryder, the percentage of appeals that the DWP lose has risen from 44% in 2007 to 61% now. He told a barristers meeting that the quality of evidence put forward by the DWP was so bad it wouldn’t be accepted in any other court. In relation to PIP and ESA medical assessments, Ryder said that often the tribunal didn’t “even know what the professional qualification or registration number was of the author” and that “in expert evidence terms in any other organisation you and I know of, it would be wholly inadmissible.” Ryder added that judges had done a spot check on outstanding cases and found that “60% of it is a no-brainer” that the DWP are going to lose. The Tribunals Service are now considering either sending cases back to the DWP where there is no reasonable defence to the appeal or charging the DWP for defending such cases. MASSIVE DROP IN LEGAL AID CASES It may be no coincidence that the standard of appeal submissions has plummeted at a time when only a tiny number of claimants are fortunate enough to have a representative. The number of claimants getting legal aid to help with social security appeals has plummeted by 99.5% as a result of massive cuts to the legal aid budget. Figures produced by the government show that the 83,000 claimants received legal help in 2012-13, before the cuts came in. This plummeted to a tiny 440 claimants in the last financial year. pete0 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romey 1878 Posted November 16, 2017 Report Share Posted November 16, 2017 Really can’t get my head around anyone willing to vote for a party that clearly has such little regard for human life. pete0 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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